Persistence & Patience

The biggest challenge to keep me on my purpose, the greatest challenge, was not giving up because there were times I wrote ten scripts for What the Bleep. Every script, I would get inspired, and I would write it. I would think, 'This is it. We're done.' Then I would show it to the two people I made the film with, Mark and Betsy, and they would be like, 'I don't think so. I don't know. I don't think so.' This went on for a year. After a year of not being able to figure it out, Mark and I were doing, 'Oh, well, what do we know?' At some point, someone said that, and then someone said, 'Let's call the movie that.' We had a big laugh over it and thought, 'Haha, that's so funny. Yeah, let's call the movie What the Do We Know?' We figured we'd come to our senses, but we never did. That's how that happened. It was the frustration of not knowing how we were going to make this thing work. Finally, it started coming together, and then I sat down in ten days and wrote the script. That was it. Done. It was like a year and a half of prep work. There were points while making the film, which was quite difficult, that I kind of thought about stopping. Then I would think about these millions of people out there who were pulling, and I was like, okay, I am not going to throw in the towel.